It was Ohio's largest interurban, connecting Toledo, Lima, Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati.

The organizers of the new company were Randal Morgan, W. Kesley Schoepf, and Hugh J.

[1] Beginning in September 1907 and continuing into 1908 the new company acquired or leased the fourteen other companies which would comprise its system:[2] The Ohio Electric proved to be financially unsound.

It paid no dividends during its corporate existence and lost $1.5 million as a result of the Great Dayton Flood in 1913.

This trend continued in 1920 when spun off the Dayton and Western Traction in its entirety.